Choose the correct option of the figures of speech used in the given sentence:
Moon faced, wane and pale, she was telling a thousand stories.
A. Metaphor
B. Personification
C. Oxymoron
D. Hyperbole
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A and D only
A. Metaphor — Correct.
- A metaphor describes one thing as another without "like" or "as".
- "Moon faced" gives her face the roundness and pallor of the moon without a comparing word.
B. Personification — Incorrect.
- Personification gives human qualities or actions to something that is not human.
- Here the subject is a woman, so nothing non-human is made human.
Example: The wind whispered through the trees.
C. Oxymoron — Incorrect.
- An oxymoron puts two words of opposite meaning side by side.
- The sentence has no such pair.
Example: There was a deafening silence in the hall.
D. Hyperbole — Correct.
- Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for effect.
- "A thousand stories" exaggerates how much her face expressed.
Contrast: a metaphor rests on likeness ("moon faced") and hyperbole on exaggeration ("a thousand stories"). Personification needs a non-human thing given human qualities, and an oxymoron needs two opposite words side by side.